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THE MIRACLE IN THE CELL
found just under the brain, produce a very special hormone that con-
trols kidney function. A cell in the pituitary does not know what the
kidneys are, nor what they need. So how can it produce a substance
so suitable to the structure of the kidneys, an organ of which it will
have no knowledge, for as long as it lives? The undoubted answer is
that it has been created by God specially to carry out this duty.
We can further explain this hormone production for reasons
unknown with an analogy: People in a factory work their whole lives
making a special complex circuit for an important electronic gadget.
But these people have never seen the gadget, nor do they know what
purpose it serves. In fact, they have never seen anything beyond the
factory, yet they have dedicated their lives to making these complex
finished circuits, which they then leave outside the factory to be
picked up. Someone comes along and transports the circuits thou-
sands of kilometers away to another factory, where they are com-
bined with some new parts to form the gadget in question. The
people in the first factory work 24 hours a day, not knowing why,
with tireless, faultless obedience.
How were these factories formed? The only answer is that with-
out a doubt, there is a will that knows and directs both factories, who
has planned a certain division of labor, given the first factory the sole
duty of making this particular electronic circuit, and also described in
great detail how this is to be done. (It is impossible for the first facto-
ry, which cannot know what the final product looks like, to facilitate
its production all by itself.)
Enzymes and hormones work in a similar way. They constantly
produce substances for purposes they will never know, and devote
their whole lives for this. They display not the slightest selfishness,
boredom, caprice because they have been taught in a special way-or
more accurately, they have been created for this. Just like everyone
and everything else in the universe, they too submit to God, the Lord
of all the worlds. They have no other choice. One verse expresses this
submission in the following way:

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